Jerome Charyn’s rollicking novel Ravage & Son tours the seedy underbelly of turn-of-the-century New York City. Between 1883 and 1913, the city’s Jewish quarter witnesses the reign and fall of Lionel Ravage, a hardware and... Read More

Alien encounters and earthly devastation impact teenagers in the fantastical novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel. In Chris Halvorson’s novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel, teenagers use stories of alien encounters to cope with their difficult life events.... Read More

Encouraging movements toward mental, physical, and economic success on a sociocultural level, "One Choice, One World" is a holistic—and deeply personal—book with a vision for global change. Part memoir, part business book, Frederick... Read More

In the evocative historical novel "Red Clay Suzie", a teenager’s growing awareness of his sexual orientation clashes with his conservative surroundings and makes him a timeless and empathetic hero. Jeffrey Dale Lofton’s quiet... Read More

A young woman debates taking her dream job, though it would mean separating from her girlfriend, in the graphic novel "Love and Gravity". Sunati and Austen are students in a future, spacefaring, Earth-based society. They’re also... Read More

Set in rural Australia, Eugen Bacon’s novel "Serengotti" follows a programmer who travels to an isolated African migrant community where little is as it seems. The novel begins with Ch’anzu having a breakdown—over a drowning... Read More

In Adi Rule’s fun supernatural novel Nell and the Netherbeast, a girl works with a malodorous beast to solve a mystery at her aunt’s bed and breakfast. Twelve-year-old Nell had intended to spend her summer helping at a local shelter.... Read More

An artist and inspector are on a mission to recover a stolen painting in Rebecca Anderson’s Victorian romance novel "The Art of Love and Lies". Rosanna is a masterful forger—though she prefers calling her paintings reproductions.... Read More